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Letter "D" » distances
«Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.»
Author: Italo Calvino
(Essayist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
continents, distances, dust cloud, invades, resembling, shapeless
«In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.»
Author: J. Donald Walters
| About:
Earth
| Keywords:
an island, distances, in a sense, island, islands, planet Earth, situate, situated, situating
«I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
Both of Us, distances, forest, good-bye, goodbye, hair, hey, kisses, pillow, sleepy, smiled, soft, storm, The Pillow
«I've never timed myself over 100m, but I have done a test over shorter distances, 20m or 30m, with and without the ball. What's strange is that I'm faster with the ball than without it. Some people are born for distance running and others for sprint»
Author: Ronaldo
(Soccer Player)
| About:
Football,
Sports
| Keywords:
distances, Distance running, shorter, short run, sprint, timed
«Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
accepted, closest, continue, distance, distances, For each, human beings, infinite, realization, side by side, sky
«The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.»
«To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Understanding
| Keywords:
distances, expressed, garden, spite
«Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances, the senses are despotic»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
despotic, distances, rule the world
«Celebrate the Birthday in your own village. You need not travel long distances to where I physically am!»
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